Richard Hidalgo intentando avanzar al C2

Los equipos colombiano y de la ex-Yugoslavia que permanecían hasta el día de ayer, decidieron retirarse debido a las extremas condiciones.

Cabe resaltar que Richard sigue estando solo, dado que a pesar que va junto al equipo canadiense, va solo y mueve solo toda la logística que implica el ascenso.

Detalle de la noticia:

05:57 am CDT May 29, 2009 
(MountEverest.net) A gruelling descent in thick fog and deep snow took the Kazakh team through the Khumbu icefall back to BC at last. 

Rough conditions forced the Serbian and Colombian teams back also on Everest north side. Only Gabriel Filippi, his cameraman, Richard Hidalgo and some Sherpas hoped to reach C2 today. 

Lhotse-Everest traverse: Kazakhs back in BC 

”We are in BC,” read Maxut’s SMS yesterday. “We survived with God’s help.” 

Max, Vaso, Svetlana, Dimitri and Nikolai arrived in BC after dark yesterday, at 8:00pm, local time. The climb down from camp 1 had taken all day in thick fog and deep snow. 

Max told Andrey Verkhovod over the phone today that after the recent snow falls, the route in the icefall became completely different. The climbers had to feel their way down in the fog; trying to uncover old ropes buried in the fresh snow. “It was a gruelling descent – visibility was 30 meters at best,” Max said. 

This morning the team started the trek back to Lukla. 

Everest North side: Fewer men on summit push 

”Gabriel and his team, accompanied by the 17-member Serbian team, worked hard to break trail and free the ropes buried under a meter of fresh snow up to 7,350m,” Filippi’s home team reported yesterday. “The climbers stopped at a couloir between C1 and C2. At certain times, wind-speed reached up to 70km/h. At return in C1, the Colombian and Serbian teams decided to call their attempts off – conditions were too tough.” 

“Gabriel, his camera operator, Peruvian Richard Hidalgo and their Sherpas have remained in C1 though,” the crew added. “They still hope for weather conditions to improve in order to try to reach C2 tomorrow (today).” 

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Fuente: www.elboulder.com